Terje Haakonsen Quotes & Sayings

So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered hap-hazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to you; that the pavements which you tread are merely stones. Later on, when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements. — Victor Hugo

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. — Deng Xiaoping

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede
not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it — Dwight D. Eisenhower

At Christmas, all roads lead home. — Marjorie Holmes

Dowager grumbled a bit about that, using the same peevish — Julia Quinn

He looked like a man who was turning into paper, folding himself into origami angles, fragile and friable and prone to crumple. — Alex Beecroft